Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico 2018
Wine Description
Montepalà is Corte Aleardi's Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, from the hillside parcel of the same name at Gargagnago. The blend is Corvina 80%, Corvinone 10% and Rondinella 10%; the bunches rest on racks in airy drying rooms until January, a natural appassimento of about three months, before a slow fermentation. The wine then ages three to five years in Slavonian oak in the underground cellars of the family's seventeenth century residence, with a further twelve months in bottle. At 16.5% it is full bodied yet silky: cherry and red currant, ripe plum and blueberry, spice and cacao, with balanced tannins and a long finish. The 2017 is open and drinking well; decant about an hour and serve at 16 to 18 °C. It was made for the winter table: braised game, beef cheek in red wine, castradina when in Venice, or aged Monte Veronese at the end.
Winery
Corte Aleardi stands in Gargagnago, one of the historic hamlets of the Valpolicella Classica, where the Ferrari family has made wine since 1789. The estate centres on a seventeenth century residence whose underground cellars keep a naturally constant temperature for aging, while a newer building handles vinification and bottling. Two hillside parcels, Bure Alto and Montepalà, supply the fruit: calcareous soils and good exposure ripen the grapes slowly and evenly. The work stays traditional throughout, with manual selection of the bunches and the classic drying process, and Amarone sits at the centre of the house's identity.
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